Apple’s announcement that it plans to build a 250,000-square-foot manufacturing facility in Houston is the latest major corporation to establish a footprint in the region. The California-based tech company and producer of iPhone and Mac computers said in the statement the move is part of a four-year $500 billion investment in the U.

Apple on Monday said it plans to help bring online a quarter-million-square-foot factory in Texas by 2026 to build artificial intelligence servers and will add about 20,000 research and development jobs across the U.

Apple is opening a new manufacturing facility in Houston to produce servers that support its artificial intelligence system as part of a larger $500 billion spending plan in the U.S. Apple says the 250,